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Guess I'm gonna go fuck up some ads now.
While the comic combined with the text has a bit of an edgy vibe, I agree with the overall message. Advertising was just decided upon to be an acceptable way to force people to look at whatever. And no, it's not always an option to "just don't look at it if you don't like it". I fucking hate those advertising TVs that get set up all over my city, they grab your attention even more than regular billboards.
Let's try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don't like it!
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They've been putting those blinding boards all over the place where I live, I think they're supposed to dim at night but they're not properly maintained and fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.
That shit is distracting as fuck
A 12 or 20 gauge shotgun with a 28" barrel, and maybe a full choke, holds a nice pattern when shot from distances, say like from a slowly moving car to something as tall as a billboard.
Watch your background.
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Straight up reads like a Tyler Durden quote.
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Fucking up ads with an ad blocker?! Noooo! If you don't like ads, then you should pay for the subscription to get rid of the ads!
I'll pay for all of the subscriptions required to not see ads when the companies I work for pay me enough money to afford it.
Have you seen the prices on these subscription sites?
Every single website you go to wants $20 a month to not show you ads, and for some all that will do is decrease the number of ads you are shown.
If you cycle through the same 10 to 15 websites then that's $200 to $300 a month just to look at the internet that you're paying $100 a month to look at.
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B-but according to lots of people we’re denying the content creators their revenue if we don’t stare at their ads like pathetic little sheep. Won’t somebody think of the advertisers???
Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.
Abolish slavery? But who will employ the slave masters?!
Not my fault they decided to work in an exploitative field.
I thought that was every field under capitalism
I think some are more exploitative than most. I work in a field that isn't directly exploitative but effectively facilitates exploitation by others. Fields like advertising directly exploit others.
Exactly! Whip cracking isn't what anyone could call a transferrable skill! They went to school for years to learn how to use it, it's all they know! If we get rid of slavery, their degrees go to waste!
Learn to code, slaver!
Content creators aren't the enemy here, at least not the smaller scale ones. They often have no other sources of revenue.
wha? If you like someone’s content and are concerned about their income, give them a dollar.
Fuck em advertisers
This is not readable for me, even when I open it in browser.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
I had no idea I had read that much text in all those pictures.
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That worked, thanks. Don't know what FAB is.
What is FAB?
Floating action button
Well, that worked.
It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?
I'm on mobile, works fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Corporations do nothing but take. They owe you.
Honestly, this makes me feel good about my habit for peeling off / throwing away those little ad stickers and cards whenever I see them somewhere and people aren't looking.
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
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